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The hits continued for a while, even after the Monkees gave up their TV series after its second season. However, the group's film ''Film/{{Head}}'', a surreal, deliberately plot-less {{Deconstruction}} of the band's journey through the ShowBusiness meat grinder, was a flop (although it's become a CultClassic). The band's television special, ''33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee'', was a disappointment as well, and Tork left the band in November of 1968. Nesmith stuck around for two more albums (''Instant Replay'' and ''The Monkees Present''), both of which sold poorly, before leaving the band himself in February of 1970. Now reduced to a Dolenz and Jones duo, the Monkees still owed Colgems one more album, and though there was no shortage of releasable tracks in the vaults, the label[[labelnote:*]]Colgems itself was on its last legs. Columbia Pictures had acquired the successful independent label Bell Records in 1969 and planned to turn it into their primary outlet for record releases, phasing Colgems out in the process.[[/labelnote]] opted to send them to New York to record some new songs with Jeff Barry, who'd produced ''More of The Monkees''. The resulting album, ''Changes'', marked a return to the bubblegum pop of the early albums. However, the songs on ''Changes'' were not as catchy or distinctive as the ones on the band's early albums. ''Changes'' didn't chart, and that was the end of the Monkees. The four ex-members went on with their lives--until 1986.
In 1986, Creator/{{MTV}} began celebrating the Monkees' 20th anniversary by rerunning their TV series. The reruns got great ratings, and suddenly the Monkees were a viable proposition again. Dolenz and Tork were persuaded to record some new tracks for a GreatestHits album, one of which, "That Was Then, This Is Now", even charted in the top 20. Davy Jones rejoined the group, and the trio recorded a new album, ''Pool It'', and also began touring again. The independently wealthy Nesmith[[note]]His mother had invented Liquid Paper correctional fluid, and he inherited her fortune when she died. He had also founded the Pacific Arts Corporation, one of the first home video companies.[[/note]] was missing from ''Pool It'' and most of the concerts, but he returned in 1996 for the band's 30th-anniversary swan songs as a quartet--''Justus'', the only Monkees album not to feature any outside musicians, songwriters or producers, and its follow-up TV special ''Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees'' (which Nesmith also wrote and directed). Since then, CreativeDifferences and Peter Tork's health problems (he was diagnosed with a rare form of head and neck cancer, Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, in 2009) seemed to have destroyed any chance of another reunion. However, in the summer of 2011, Jones, Dolenz and Tork embarked on a hugely successful concert tour commemorating the band's 45th anniversary.
In 1986, Creator/{{MTV}} began celebrating the Monkees' 20th anniversary by rerunning their TV series. The reruns got great ratings, and suddenly the Monkees were a viable proposition again. Dolenz and Tork were persuaded to record some new tracks for a GreatestHits album, one of which, "That Was Then, This Is Now", even charted in the top 20. Davy Jones rejoined the group, and the trio recorded a new album, ''Pool It'', and also began touring again. The independently wealthy Nesmith[[note]]His mother had invented Liquid Paper correctional fluid, and he inherited her fortune when she died. He had also founded the Pacific Arts Corporation, one of the first home video companies.[[/note]] was missing from ''Pool It'' and most of the concerts, but he returned in 1996 for the band's 30th-anniversary swan songs as a quartet--''Justus'', the only Monkees album not to feature any outside musicians, songwriters or producers, and its follow-up TV special ''Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees'' (which Nesmith also wrote and directed). Since then, CreativeDifferences and Peter Tork's health problems (he was diagnosed with a rare form of head and neck cancer, Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, in 2009) seemed to have destroyed any chance of another reunion. However, in the summer of 2011, Jones, Dolenz and Tork embarked on a hugely successful concert tour commemorating the band's 45th anniversary.
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The hits continued for a while, even after the Monkees gave up their TV series after its second season. However, the group's film ''Film/{{Head}}'', a surreal, deliberately plot-less {{Deconstruction}} of the band's journey through the ShowBusiness meat grinder, was a flop (although it's it has become a CultClassic). The band's CultClassic); their television special, ''33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee'', was a disappointment as well, well; and Tork left the band in November of 1968. Nesmith stuck around for two more albums (''Instant Replay'' and ''The Monkees Present''), both of which sold poorly, before leaving the band himself in February of 1970. Now reduced to a Dolenz and Jones Dolenz/Jones duo, the Monkees still owed Colgems one more album, and though there was no shortage of releasable tracks still in the vaults, the label[[labelnote:*]]Colgems label[[note]] Colgems itself was on its last legs. Columbia Pictures had acquired the successful independent label Bell Records in 1969 and planned to turn it into their primary outlet for record releases, phasing Colgems out in the process.[[/labelnote]] [[/note]] opted to send them to New York to record some new songs with Jeff Barry, who'd produced ''More of The Monkees''. The resulting album, ''Changes'', marked a return to the bubblegum pop of the early albums. However, the songs on ''Changes'' were not as catchy or distinctive as the ones on the band's early albums. ''Changes'' didn't chart, and that was the end of the Monkees. The four ex-members went on with their lives--until separate lives and careers--until 1986.
In 1986, Creator/{{MTV}} began celebrating the Monkees' 20th anniversary by rerunning their TV series. The reruns got great ratings, and suddenly the Monkees were a viable proposition again. Dolenz and Tork were persuaded to record some new tracks for a GreatestHits album, one of which, "That Was Then, This Is Now", even charted in the top 20. Davy Jones rejoined the group, and the trio recorded a new album, ''Pool It'', and also began touring again. The independently wealthyNesmith[[note]]His Nesmith[[note]] His mother had invented Liquid Paper correctional fluid, and he inherited her fortune when she died. He had also founded the Pacific Arts Corporation, one of the first home video companies. [[/note]] was missing from ''Pool It'' and most of the concerts, but he returned in 1996 for the band's 30th-anniversary swan songs as a quartet--''Justus'', the only Monkees album not to feature any outside musicians, songwriters or producers, and its follow-up TV special ''Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees'' (which Nesmith also wrote and directed). Since then, CreativeDifferences and Peter Tork's health problems (he was diagnosed with a rare form of head and neck cancer, Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, in 2009) seemed to have destroyed any chance of another reunion. However, in the summer of 2011, Jones, Dolenz and Tork embarked on a hugely successful concert tour commemorating the band's 45th anniversary.
In 1986, Creator/{{MTV}} began celebrating the Monkees' 20th anniversary by rerunning their TV series. The reruns got great ratings, and suddenly the Monkees were a viable proposition again. Dolenz and Tork were persuaded to record some new tracks for a GreatestHits album, one of which, "That Was Then, This Is Now", even charted in the top 20. Davy Jones rejoined the group, and the trio recorded a new album, ''Pool It'', and also began touring again. The independently wealthy
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The Monkees started when two TV producers, Creator/BobRafelson and Bert Schneider, placed an ad in entertainment industry trade papers calling for "Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series". After hundreds of hopefuls auditioned, the "4 insane boys" who made the cut were FormerChildStar and GarageBand singer Micky Dolenz,[[note]]His parents were character actors George Dolenz, best known as the star of the Creator/ITCEntertainment series adaptation of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', and Janelle Johnson, who appeared in ''Film/TheBruteMan''[[/note]] expatriate Brit turned Broadway musical head-liner Davy Jones (not to be confused with [[DavyJones the ocean spirit of the same name]]), Texas-born singer/songwriter Music/MichaelNesmith, and Connecticut-raised Greenwich Village folkie Peter Tork. While all four Monkees had previous musical experience, Nesmith and Tork had no professional acting experience (the two had some high school and college acting creds, and Tork appeared in a long-lost short film made by an acquaintance in his college years), but they adapted quickly. Creator/ScreenGems partnered with Raybert Productions (Rafelson and Schneider's company) to produce the pilot. Creator/{{NBC}} picked it up as a series, and plans were quickly made to issue their music alongside the series on the newly-created Colgems ('''Col'''[[Creator/ColumbiaPictures umbia Pictures]] and [[Creator/ScreenGems Screen]] '''Gems''') label, which would be distributed by Creator/RCARecords. (RCA owned NBC at the time.) The concept of a Hollywood studio putting together a [[BorrowingTheBeatles Beatles-like]] band from scratch attracted much attention to the project, with the band being dubbed The Prefab Four, though Rafelson has said that he viewed The Monkees as being like an ArrangedMarriage of talented guys, using The Beatles as an inspiration, rather than a coldly cynical FollowTheLeader situation.
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The Monkees started when two TV producers, Creator/BobRafelson and Bert Schneider, placed an ad in entertainment industry trade papers calling for "Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series". After hundreds of hopefuls auditioned, the "4 insane boys" who made the cut were FormerChildStar and GarageBand singer Micky Dolenz,[[note]]His parents were character actors George Dolenz, best known as the star of the Creator/ITCEntertainment series adaptation of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', and Janelle Johnson, who appeared in ''Film/TheBruteMan''[[/note]] expatriate Brit turned Broadway musical head-liner Davy Jones (not to be confused with [[DavyJones the ocean spirit of the same name]]), Texas-born singer/songwriter singer-songwriter and Liquid Paper heir Music/MichaelNesmith, and Connecticut-raised Greenwich Village folkie Peter Tork. While all four Monkees had previous prior musical experience, Nesmith and Tork had no professional acting experience (the two had some high school and college acting creds, and Tork appeared in a long-lost short film made by an acquaintance in his college years), but they adapted quickly. Creator/ScreenGems partnered with Raybert Productions (Rafelson and Schneider's company) to produce the pilot. Creator/{{NBC}} picked it up as a series, and plans were quickly made to issue their music alongside the series on the newly-created Colgems ('''Col'''[[Creator/ColumbiaPictures umbia Pictures]] and [[Creator/ScreenGems Screen]] '''Gems''') label, which would be distributed by Creator/RCARecords. (RCA owned NBC at the time.) The concept of a Hollywood studio putting together a [[BorrowingTheBeatles Beatles-like]] pop band from scratch attracted much attention to the project, with the band being dubbed The "The Prefab Four, Four", though Rafelson has said that he viewed The Monkees as being like an ArrangedMarriage of talented guys, using The Beatles as an inspiration, rather than a coldly cynical FollowTheLeader situation.
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* UrExample: The Dolenz/Nesmith/Jones vocal blend can be seen as something of a precursor to the sound that Crosby, Stills & Nash would later make famous, in that both groups featured a nasally Mancunian (Jones and Nash), a gravelly-sounding southerner (Nesmith and Stills), and a smooth-voiced Californian (Dolenz and Crosby).
